21 Bible Verses about Loving Others

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

now this is his commandment, that we believe in his son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, as he commanded us.

for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.

As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.

for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

who also declared to us the love you bear to us upon a spiritual account.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently, is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill; it does not countenance injustice, but smiles upon virtue;read more.
it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst.

never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.

for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.

Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Jesus said to him, "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." this is the first and most important precept, and the second has an affinity with it, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self."

such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:

For tho' I should speak with the eloquence of men, and of angels, and not have social affection, I should be like sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal. and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.